Analysis of Retrial Queueing System M/G/1 with Impatient Customers, Collisions and Unreliable Server Using Simulation

Abstract

AbstractIn this paper, we consider a retrial queueing system of M/G/1 type with an unreliable server, collisions, and impatient customers. The novelty of our work is to carry out a sensitivity analysis applying different distributions of service time of customers on significant performance measures for example on the probability of abandonment, the mean waiting time of an arbitrary, successfully served, impatient customer, etc. A customer is able to depart from the system in the orbit if it does not get its appropriate service after a definite random waiting time so these will be the so-called impatient customers. In the case of server failure, requests are allowed to enter the system but these will be forwarded immediately towards the orbit. The service, retrial, impatience, operation, and repair times are supposed to be independent of each other. Several graphical illustrations demonstrate the comparisons of the investigated distributions and the interesting phenomena which are obtained by our self-developed simulation program. The achieved results are compared to the results of the [2] to check how the system characteristics changes if we use other distributions of service time and to present the advantages of performing simulations in certain scenarios.KeywordsRetrial queueImpatient customersCollisionsUnreliable serverSimulationSensitivity analysis